The agreement on minimal standards applying to all of Europe (the results of the EU project Simbase, among others, would have to be valued as a possible starting point for this), in turn have to be interpreted as potential starting point for an Europe-wide accreditation of STCs [ 31].
Yet Congress has done nothing about this problem yet, and the safety-lock provision languishing in the conference committee would not require that the devices meet minimal technical standards to ensure that they can effectively stop accidental firings by children.
Of course, minimal journalistic standards, to say nothing of a sense of humor, would have saved them the embarrassment.
"The refusal to provide very minimal living standards to people who are caught in this monstrosity -- that's just pure savagery," Chomsky said during an interview with HuffPost Live.
Currently, the accepted standard to bring a charge against anyone is probable cause, the same minimal standard needed to make an arrest.
UniGene assigns all human Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) sequences that meet minimal standards of quality to distinct "clusters".
We propose minimal standards or norms to be defined at the European level for emergency drugs, concerning their design, (e.g. pre-diluted drugs in pre-filled ready to use glass syringes), their concentrations, their names, their packaging and labeling, and concerning the legibility of what is printed on ampoules or syringes.
Registration and certification for guideline developers to adhere to minimal standards in evidence assessment and transparent development and reporting of recommendations [ 11, 12], and monitoring with tools such as AGREE [ 13] are steps that can avoid duplication and ensure credibility of guidelines.
However, the requirements and process for licensing vary by state and tend to include minimal standards that are not sufficient to ensure quality care.
